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WG Day:

Menlo Park, California
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Xiao Han, Chi Chan, Anirudh Padmarao, Lisa Watkins

Shifting Instagram Development Towards Monolith Server Via Federated Schema

Transbay
Federation + Distributed System

Session description

Instagram is moving from a Python monolith to a PHP monolith. Come find out how we leverage GraphQL to define a single API across both monoliths to power major product migrations (e.g. Stories, Reels, Threads) and facilitate incremental development shifts. Meta’s architectural philosophy favors federation to support a monolithic architecture over traditional microservices.


Session speakers

Xiao Han

Meta Platform Inc., Software Engineer

returning speaker

Software Engineer on Instagram Product Foundations

Chi Chan

Meta, Software Engineer

returning speaker

GraphQL server side framework at Meta.

Anirudh Padmarao

Meta, Software Engineer

returning speaker

I work on server infrastructure at Instagram.

Lisa Watkins

Meta, Software Engineer

returning speaker

Lisa works on the Mobile Sustainability team at Instagram. Her team's charter is to ensure the longterm health of the mobile developer experience at Instagram. Her main focus is transition Instagram from REST to GraphQL.

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